12 Top nonfiction books like Creation Revisited by Peter Atkins

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Creation Revisited

By: Peter Atkins

3.80

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this investigation into the nature of the cosmos, P.W. Atkins explores the fundamental questions…

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1. Heart of a Dog

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov

4.10

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more

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"A dog's spirit dies hard."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

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2. Digital Fortress

By: Dan Brown

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Before the multi-million, runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown set his razor-sharp resea… read more

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3. The Case for Christ

By: Lee Strobel

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Using the dramatic scenario of an investigative journalist pursuing his story and leads, Lee Strobe… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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4. The Name of the Rose

By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver

4.14

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more

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"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

5. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. Free Will

By: Sam Harris

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more

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  • atheism
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • science

7. Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)

By: Dan Brown

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brow… read more

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8. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

By: Robert M. Pirsig

3.78

Format: 540 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a medi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
"This forest silence improves anyone."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"The more you read, the more you calm down."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. "

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

9. The History of Hell

By: Alice K. Turner

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A "lively...generously illustrated" (Washington Post Book World) survey of how, over the past four … read more

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10. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

By: Edwin A. Abbott , Banesh Hoffmann

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertai… read more

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11. Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

By: Garry Kasparov , None

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Audio CD

Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in… read more

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12. Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle

By: Andreas Wagner

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature's many innovations--… read more

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13. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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14. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

By: Catherine Belton

4.18

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Belton's Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West book and Peter Atkins's Creation Revisited

  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

By: Timothy Snyder

4.36

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the ris… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"For the reporters, the heroes of our time"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"In 1976, Stephen King published a short story, “I Know What You Need,"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"Міф Жовтневої революції обіцяв усе; міф Великої Вітчизняної війни не обіцяв нічого."

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"When [Ivan] Ilyin wrote that the art of politics was “identifying and neutralizing the enemy,"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

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16. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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17. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.11

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more

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  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • astronomy
  • physics
  • science
"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

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18. Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

By: Russell "Russ" Roberts

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the host of EconTalk, a guide to decision-making when you can't crunch the numbers Algorith… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Exploring can turn out much better than a planned itinerary."

-Russell "Russ" Roberts, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

"Spend more time getting used to the darkness and less time looking to expand the light."

-Russell "Russ" Roberts, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

"If the important things are hard to measure, and the measurable things misleading, what kind of decision framework is left? This book is my answer to that question."

-Russell "Russ" Roberts, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

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19. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

By: Bill Maher

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more

Similar categories in Bill Maher's What This Comedian Said Will Shock You book and Peter Atkins's Creation Revisited

  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.33

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Linked to a special mini season of the award-winning StarTalk podcast, this enlightening illustrate… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • astronomy
  • physics
  • science
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21. The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves

By: Eric R. Kandel

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Nobel Prize recipient Eric R. Kandel investigates The Disordered Mind to uncover what brain disorde… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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22. Creation Revisited

By: Peter Atkins

3.80

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this investigation into the nature of the cosmos, P.W. Atkins explores the fundamental questions… read more

Similar categories in Peter Atkins's Creation Revisited book and Peter Atkins's Creation Revisited

  • history
  • atheism
  • evolution
  • philosophy
  • chemistry
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • astronomy
  • physics
  • science

7 must-read history books like Creation Revisited by Peter Atkins

On Anarchism

Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

Catherine Belton

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Timothy Snyder

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.11

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Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

Peter Attia

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

Annie Duke

4.18

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Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

Shane Parrish

4.21

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